If you are using a chromium based browser, project naphta allows you to select text in images directly in the browser.

Yeah, forgot the name

There are open source alternatives to Google photos, a good example which uses material 3 (you) is fossify photos

You might want to know that old spotify versions work perfectly.

Up until I switched to tidal 4 months ago, I was using a version of spotify from August 2023 to avoid all the “tiktokerry” that appeared everywhere. I tested many versions, and the point where the app stops working seems to be somewhere in 2017

I can personally recommend Debian with xfce as an alternative to spiral linux

Android has dns66, which kinda works; per example, on youtube, home ads are not blocked. Video ads are though, besides youtube’s own ads, which are baked into the app